A War Over Weed & Water Is Tearing Apart This California Community
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2021
- A battle has erupted over water and weed in Northern California, and the fight has pitted some long-time residents against a community of refugees from Southeast Asia.
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Police are not peace officers, this country is an oligarcy. This was legalized statewide, this county and thepeople responsible need prizon time including the police for breaking the law.
It's a federal felony to store phosphates in the open. As a grower for the last 23 years. Lock up your nutes. Animals get sick from it.
A pack of lies per the usual, good job vice.
Edward Bernays would be so proud to see a government mouth piece like Vice become so succussful at propaganda. Town has 3,000 white people and gets 4,000+ Asians dropped off and Vice makes the white people look bad. lol. Fabian Socialism at it's finest; only with the help of a narrative.
@@calimade8526 Yes indeed, vice is pure evil always causing divide and conquer, poor fools are only destroying themselves by doing so.
Should we start banning golf courses because they waste so much water for people to just play a game.
notice how golf is the game of wealth, it will never be illegal
For reals
alot of courses use reclaimed water.
Yes
Yes
"...if it's not taxed, it's illegal". tell that to huge corporate entities that don't pay taxes yet still operate with a hugely visible nationwide presence.
Couldn't have said it better
I guess religious institutions are illegal too by that logic.
Corporations pay taxes
Amén 🙏
@@BlastinRope
I mean, most do, unless the corporation is big and powerful enough to exploit loopholes.
He said this isn’t a race issue- “We have to focus where we have the biggest impact” proceeds to target Mong farmers. How else are you supposed to take that? That interview proves he doesn’t care and is only interested in his own self serving bullshit. He forgot to even give a message to the people the question was about.
Those people who hate weed they have jobs out government and state says their is not enough jobs. If you hate weed give your job up bet you won't those jobs provide money back to everything you love
It's about enforcing the law and they happen to be Mong. It's not about race. If it's illegal to grow marijuana in that county then you shouldn't grow it.
he wants the Hmong to buy building permits and permits from the county . he wants it to be sanitary out there with waste disposal and not a ton of chemicals. he wants you all to pay for the permits for building and build proper homes to live in .
Not against legal weed farming, but I still consider food and fire protection to be much higher priority, especially during california's drought. Throw pollution and greed into the mix and nothing good will come.
Cant grow weed legally or safely? Why not grow a food crop?
Right! Acting like Flint Michigan didn't even happen
Funny how the cop doesn’t know the harmful chemicals or the outcome it does to the environment.. he’s just believing what he’s told with no research behind it lol they’re goofy
Even if he knows , most he could do is lose his job if he s against it
@@chivari100 you think this Sheriff really cares about those chemicals. 😄 🤣 😂.
"he’s just believing what he’s told with no research behind it"
Well as if a Racist Sherif would ever question his own idiotic believes or does advance there horizon with new information.
AND the facts that unregulation is the reason they use chemicals... places like Colorado have no chemicals to grow with since they are regulated.
That's what's referred to as an order follower. Giving the same lame excuse, just like the Nazis of WW2. And we know how that lousy defense worked out for the real criminals.
Meanwhile Nestle is still allowed to bottle and sell California reservoir water and over bottles the amount they are contracted for.
Straight some bullshit folks
I was surprised it wasn't the top-comment.
@@axelbauron155 we gotta bump it up
That they pay literally nothing to pump out of the ground.
@@LIOX223C True dat
There’s an old saying dating back to homesteading days “In the West, whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting”
But Hmong people don’t fight!!! Lol u lose hmong
There's an even older saying that goes back far longer than the homesteading days of the west. Water Is Life.
@@yeryang6061 that’s the point he’s making,
The people are fighting politics by controlling your water.
@Iron Boot did u even watch the video? Jesus. Giant facepalm.
Wtf does that have to do with anything lol
It's not about race...
Words the sheriff used, "third world country", "quality of life" (apparently it gets better without water), "...my opinion, which hopefully is taken as truth"
Facts are facts. You know the world is fucked when authorities ask ppl to take their OPINION as TRUTH (FACTS). The language tells alot. Opinions are opinions, not facts.
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Yes! And those Hmong people were important allies in the Vietnam war. Many of them served in special forces operations and paid the ultimate price.
@@fellspoint9364 ... But does that give them the right to come here...and totally disregard our laws???
Siskiyou county is filled with racists, I'm telling you as someone who lives south of Yreka.
It's about wasting precious water resources, and following laws. The whole race card is being played to get special treatment, which is in itself very racist
"why are you running if you have nothing to hide?" because your rolling in with a small army & rifles with intent to kill or throw them in prison for 20+ years lmao
Dumb take, no asians got killed by that anti pot war.
I don't think they're doing the right thing but it's only a misdemeanor fine, they aren't getting locked up.
@@wormfrom808 They literally mentioned an Asian they gunned down in this video. GTFO boot licker
It's a misdemeanor at worst in CA. Stop spreading false information.
"nothing to hide why are you running?" maybe cause a bunch of dudes with AR's breaking down the front door doesnt sound as fun to them.
If it’s legal that pig won’t have a job
"how can you tax it", then what about taxing the hundreds of corporations evading their obligations? Meanwhile they go to destroy some poor people's only income for fun getting dressed up in gear with assault rifles
Maybe they should have thought about it before becoming criminals
@@Thingy200 Ok goodie two shoes go ahead and tell everybody how much of a law abiding citizen you are were so impressed. If only we all could be as obedient as you.
@Mira culix no no, like Apples, not potatoes. that way they only need to pay 1% tax
The officer using a gas mask around cannabis plants is the most hilarious thing I've seen today
Giant skunk farm , would you like to smell that !!!!
@@jimwattenburger4545 some people would
@@jimwattenburger4545 THE BEST ANSWER IS……YES!!!! WE WANT TO SMELL THOSE KINDS OF SKUNKS!!!! NOTHING ILLEGAL ABOUT SMELLING!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
i have one with a bowl on it
Could be a health issue.
"It's like a third world country out there".., as if their ancestors did not come from Europe and looted this vast bountiful land which rightfully belongs to Native American people. Remember the sayings, 'You can't have your cake and eat it too'. 🥺 😉
May I remind you the fact that coastal Northern California used to be the home of most heavily concentrated indigenous Native American population in California, as well as world's most concentrated Red Wood forest with an estimated 2 million acreas of centuries-old rare red wood trees standing tall as lately as 2 centuries ago.
Today, less than one percent of Native Americans population survives and remains in a handful of reservations, while less than 100, 000 acreas of red wood trees survives and remains as the rest were cut down and shipped to coastal cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Besides, the most prized weed comes from the Emerald Triangle of three Northern California counties: Mendocino County, Humboldt County, and Trinity County where many weed farms are run by second and third generation growers.
May I ask if you care to know the fact that indigenous Native Americans, and their population in Continents of America 500 yrs ago was around 15 millions, while European population in Europe was around 25 millions.
Today, Native Americans population is 15 million, while the European population, in the Continents of America + Europe, is a staggering 'TWO BILLIONS'!
For instance, 200 years ago here in the USA, around 3 million Germans came, and now there are 65 millions German-Americans; while 150 years ago, around 2 millions Irish came, and now there are 45 million Irish-Americans. While 500 years ago there were estimated to be 5 to 6 millions indigenous Native Americans in the USA, before Christopher Columbus arrived, today there are only around 2 million indigenous Native Americans survived.
Imagine this scenario, if Native American people cross the Atlantic, invade and Colonize Europe, and slaughter most Europeans, and put the remaining populations in tiny reservations, for 500 long years. How would Europeans feel about it? Think about it.
All they need is their beloved motherland back, the lands that their ancestors' forebears had lived through thick and thin, endured through hardships and all for generations.
Besides, indigenous Native Americans in Colonized lands of Anglo British, Spaniard and others are more of the same. Kill the indigenous Natives and whoever is left, marginalize them and create artificial poverty, once that poverty becomes crime and drinking, the media points to the poor and blames them to continue to stigmatize the 'other' community, scumbags, etc.
Amazing fact that Indigenous Natives had built such great civilizations as Mayan, Inca and Aztec without outside help, and all from scratch, and all on their own, since they had been cut off from the rest of the world for twenty thousand years. In other words, they actually are great and proud people.
Imagine what it would be like today if Native Americans had possessed some sort of nuclear weapons to defend themselves, and their beloved motherlands from invaders Colonizers? The answer is they would still have their own beloved motherlands, plus their population comparable to that of the European population.
In my humble opinion, it's about time to decolonize the Colonized lands, and return it to rightful owners Native American people.
Notorious global cardinal crimes the West has committed, and benefited a great deals, such as Slavery & Colonialism had long been over, why on earth is this another notorious Colonization still lingering on, may I ask? 🤔
@@ohlordy9680 In California alone there were an estimated half a million (500,000) indigenous Native people inhabited there before Spanish arrived.
Less than 5 % were hunter gatherers while overwhelming majority settled down and along oceans, rivers, creeks, lakes, waterways and grew agricultural stuff for food.
After Spanish and Anglo conquest, after placing them in Rancheria & Reservation, less than 20,000 survived. 😔
@@thykingdomcome7238 My jaw dropped as I learn, mega genocide of indigenous Native Americans, and their population in Continents of America 500 yrs ago was around 15 millions, while European population in Europe was around 25 millions.
Today, Native Americans population is 15 million, while the European population, in the Continents of America + Europe, is a staggering 'TWO BILLIONS'! A sad truth.
I agree, about time to decolonize the Colonized lands, and return to rightful owners indigenous Native American people.
True, notorious global cardinal crimes Anglo West has committed, and benefited a great deals, such as Slavery & Colonialism had long been over, why is notorious Colonization still lingering on, which makes sense.
That prayer at the beginning tells me everything I need to know about the leaders of that town.
i like how the sheriff says “how do you tax this” like they don’t already sell licenses and tax other plants like tobacco.
Its a 50 percent mark up in taxes i paid 85 8th in merced ca anyone can buy water get a 5000 gallon tank 225 to fill it where I live and ca is chalked full of water crises whole towns gone because of water issues
You ever see somebody grow tobacco? Lol.
@@johnkel01 your a moe moe its illigal to have tobacco plants
@@happyyier geez, thanks for your brilliant insight moe Moe.
@@johnkel01 your mom is the moe moe your welcome
"It's like a third world country out there"
So lets just take away their water, that should sort them out.
That's what they do in 3rd world countries.
its like a third word country cuz the government can't handle legalizing weed state wide so the growers are forced into living in an impermanent dwelling
The doublespeak and perverted justifications this guy spews for his persecution of these farmers is disgusting. Growing cannabis does no harm to the environment. This is all about being able to control the money. They use mafia tactics because they aren't getting their cut of the profits. That's all this is about.
IKR when I heard that I was like 👀 WTF
@@derekd1510 FACTS this is so sad
I'm all for legalization but growing commercially must be done responsibly. Those chemicals are a real factor and I'm certain they're not being handled properly by people everywhere. A tale as old as time.
I doubt they’re chemicals lol they’re nutrients for the plants to grow better.
@@c2geezyy502 they are chemicals. Every crop needs a fair share of pesticides. Specially if you want to increase your yield, which of course would be the case here
This video doesn't get into the deeper issue at hand: The lack of and need for water throughout the state
“You can’t grow marijuana for your community, only big companies can do that.”
This is why the 2nd Amendment needs to be protected and defended at ALL costs. Of course we don't need artillery batteries and nuclear weapons, but we should be able to have any small arms the government has.
@@tylercampbell1186 I'm glad I live in Texas
@@juarezderrick9647 I truly hope you guys get independence if the government keeps playing games with everyone's lives.
@@tylercampbell1186 we are trying our best to separate ourself from the other 49 but it's going to be a long process. We might have to go to war
@@juarezderrick9647 there is no need for a war really, except for when someone tries to use force first.
If you watched carefully. They pointed out the garbage not cleaned up, it was the plant nutrients. They burned the weed with gas, with no firetruck nearby, in California, where the farmers didn't have wells.
no they mixed the bud with dirt and water lol. look closer and think.
They literally used what they’re trying to “conserve” to get rid of it…
@@MrMAC8964 exactly. what a waste of water!
@@Lex-of2wo ikr
@@jujuboi2302 They used about....500-1000 gallons (and that's a high estimate) as compared to 350k gallons. Jesus - the fact folk that think like this have HS diplomas these days...scary.
In Minnesota,we were the first state to have moung community settlers, they are farmers, very different that It S farmers. California is the worst state for immigrants, these people who are doing what they have done for centuries. I feel for these hard working men
My high ass is watching this I COULD NEVER BE WITH A BUNCH OF RANDOM MFS YELLING ONE WORD OVER AND OVER AGAIN😂😂😂
“LOOK AT ALL THE CHEMICALS THEY PUT IN THE WATER” points to gardening supplies
That Cop is condensing what people hate about Americans. An authoritarian, gun slinging jerk, who sees some bottles and assumes it's "very bad chemicals."
Ofc it looks like a mess there, but why would you act this stupid in front of a camera? 🤣
@@echtvergoldet because he is that stupid
The grass that sits under my plants is way taller than anywhere else in the yard. The nutrient rich water drips out and feeds nature. We use things good for “plants.” My plants love it, so does the lawn.
@@PassiveDissimulation everything in excess is bad good for plants bad for everything else
he was talking about the fertilizer and its a big problem here
This immigrant targeting is exactly how weed got criminalized to begin with.
im autstic aswell
@@DroppinFrames I believe you are but that's not an excuse for not knowing history. What he said was true whether you like it or not. It's on record...
Right... weed mostly came from México in the Mexican Revolution era and before it was prohibited fake news from that time were saying that the "evil weed" will make people go mad and will make Mexicans r4pe and k1ll your white wifes... very disgusting era of prohibitionism and racism
Noooo.
Reefer madness was started being a FALSE information. Saying that black men where raping White women and getting a strength boost when smoking it.
That how it started in 1920s
Dont just say random things that sound good
@@rollinthunder8671 weed mostly came from mexico
Same story here in humboldt, a mom n pop farm will get abated/fined for having a 20x30 greenhouse due to "environmental damage" meanwhile a 100,000 sq ft megagrow just got approved alongside the eel river, with pipes drawing directly out of it.
"You control the water, you control everything."
-Bad turtle from Rango
Sounds like the corporate pot farms are squashing their competition.
@Stone Arch Sentry you’re a sad man lol
Gotta get rid of the Competition and Threat.. what americans do Best
Another sheriff appointed and not elected, who doesn't represent the people. California long time ago handed over the election of the sheriff to politicians, and next comes racial discrimination, economic discrimination, kleptocracy who disregard the Constitution.
That sheriff was hilarious, something along the lines of "The solution to this problem is for these Asians to do what I say and stop calling me a racist."
total tool!
This is why I've stopped being proud to be a Californian
@@Shastavalleyoutdoorsman have any documented examples of this? Not trying to be lowkey contrarian- curious as to the other side of the story but hearsay alone isn't enough
Well I doubt if you'd like what they are doing especially if you value clean ground water and honest endeavors.
@@Shastavalleyoutdoorsman Weird excuse for not having any evidence. Bout as weak as my dog ate my homework.
They have a phone in the middle of nowhere that's very smart
sheriff just handling the kick backs, competition.
"It's like a third world country out there"
So let's shut off their water...
My favorite trope is when Americans do an extremely American thing and then pretend those things only happen outside of America۔
The similarities on how people are treated in third world countries is eerie.
@@majesticmajestic7058 almost like third world country is a designation that doesn't really mean anything and is just coded racism۔
@@majesticmajestic7058 uh no. Most Americans have access to plumbing, third world countries dont. There is a great distinction between the infrastructure of a first world and third world countries.
Send the asteroid - namaste 🙏
“look at the toxic chemicals” *points to bottled nutrients* i never knew cal mag was a toxic chemical, my plants must just be strong enough to withstand such “harmful” chemicals that all plants needs 😂
😂😂😂😂👌🏼
...yeah but they made up for it by driving over those bags of weed like a boss😂
Well.. they are salts… u can grow organically… jadam… KNF etc…
Cal mag has my plants looking stunning and tasty 😂 ...I stand by cal mag and it's components..makes my herb 🌿 so pretty lol
r u a lawyer for chem corp?
5:01 - I would be so mad if they had taken me like that😢😂
These people keep a lot of cash buried on their land. I've heard stories about it. The pay is all in cash and in small bills so they literately have trash bags full of cash buried on their farms... because depositing $100,000 in small bills at the bank will certainly raise suspicion... even if split into $10,000 ten times. For many, they would smuggle the cash across state lines (yes, most of these people are from out of state) then they'd have their family members (sons, daughters, etc) who has a job deposit the money for them so if anyone asks where they got the money, they would say it's from their job. It's hard to be rich by playing by the rules... for one, taxes are too high... not just in the weed business but in everything.
“These people” once she said that…she told us everything we needed to know.
Cut the holier than thou virtue signalling. You've probably used the phrase before somewhere in your life too. To be clear I'm the side of the growers, but we should try not to label someone a racist or a Karen just from a first glance.
@@yegfreethinker Alright Karen.
@@themanhimself3 dude I support the growers...time ban social media. This is beyond toxic
Or the more obvious dog whistle, "It's like a third world country"
@@yegfreethinker ok grandpa, back to bed now.
lmao at the cops wearing respirators for weed plants like their raiding a meth lab..
Yup morons
That part killed me 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
They're "scared for their lives"
Maybe they are trying to be protected from Corona in confined places :P
It could be that these areas have toxins around them. Also, it’s a lot of sand going up in there.
Imagine all those chemicals plus the sand, that’ll irritate your lungs for the rest of the day.
Dont u think the water needed for the plants is what is causing a drought???
These are the og humbolt growers. Ill never forget going to cali years ago to meet “B chang” and his kids counting money. 😂
"wasting water" turns around and dumps fresh water on the weed to "ruin" it.
Best part is weed doesn’t need crazy water. Much less than golf courses and almond farms…
@@mattk8810 Needs a ton of water my friend. You give very little, you wind up with a small plant and scraggly colas.... More water you can give during vegetation, the larger the plant will be with more flowering colas.... Not that I'm against it, but don't fool yourself into thinking it doesn't consume much compared to other crops... Main thing that is important though, is that all the illegal pot grows put together is probably just a few acres worth of land, so the water savings over having that alfalfa farmer switch crops to something that uses less water would probably save more than 300k gallons, which is by far the more effective solution than the racist cop pretending it's all the pot grows that are the issue.
@@seaofgreens water ban was never the solution.
@@mattk8810 it does
@@seaofgreens exactly AND in that area you need even MORE water than normal because its so damn dry and hot there. So yes cannabis Does need lots of water out there to produce a good crop. But to me, this is just Another example of police departments looking for the EASIEST ways to maintain their paychecks. They dont go after FENTANYL trafficking which is killing more people than ever drug in existence COMBINED, but theyll go after those EASY things that guarantee their paychecks keep flowing...
The cop admits he dosesnt even know what chemicals are for agricultural purposes and what chemicals are actual toxins. Dude is just talking out of his ass.
The cop knows his lane and sticks to it.
He doesn't really need to, anything bought for agriculture is usually concentrated, so yeah everything there in bottles is toxic.
The dosage makes the poison.
@@bodybag22 Not really? Are you going to go around calling all fertilizer toxic? If it breaks, the rain will just wash it away and it's not particularly harmful if those small containers are all they got.
@@KateKuehl Assuming it's fertilizer.
And yes fertilizer runoff can certainly cause issues too.
@@bodybag22 So is caffeine, medication, cosmetics and a ton more. Even water can kill with the right dosage 😂
"If you have nothing to Hide then why are you running?" A true Genius worda
What's the point in destroying plant that's already ready to harvested, the waters already been used and the pollution is already in the air. And what do these ppl do when a batch is confiscated? They start 3 new fields. Futile battle
"It's like a 3rd world country out there, and that cannot be ok!" And his solution to that problem is to make more laws so that it is harder for those people to thrive.... What kind of fucking logic is that!?
@@Shastavalleyoutdoorsman no the problem is that the government decided to criminalize their way of living. If pot was federally legal there would be no issue. Or if the local government realized that hey maybe it's better if money is going to theses people here in the USA where it remain part of our economy rather than allowing the Mexican cartel to control the illegal market and let them have all the black market weed money... Smh... Stupidity.
@@Shastavalleyoutdoorsman first off you don't know what they paid for anything. And secondly how do you figure these 40 and 80 acre farms your talking about being for sale are gonna be cheaper than the 2.5 acres they bought in the desert!? That doesn't even make any sense. And thirdly who do you think you are telling them how they should live? Like honestly. Did you watch the video? They are NOT the problem. Just one legitimate farmers uses several million gallons whereas these people only need 300,000 how the are they the problem?
@@Shastavalleyoutdoorsman your a karen
@@Shastavalleyoutdoorsman Hmong Freedom Festival got canceled last year because of covid. Other times before that, it never got canceled. That's not even the biggest Hmong festival in the US, that would be the Fresno Hmong New Year. The only thing that happens there is drunk people fighting or petty people fighting. But I digress. The whole water thing is diffintely a race thing because the biggest growers are Russians and WHITE Americans in Siskiyou county yet Hmong people are being targeted because they look different. As someone who knows about the weed growing situation, I can say with confidence that Russians and whites are the bigger growers in siskyou they're just deeper into the mountains.
@@Shastavalleyoutdoorsman From what I know, they're closer to Weed than Yreka but even then it's almost one to two hours drive from Weed. I doubt you actually know the in and out of it all. At this point, I'd rather just accept you hate Hmong people rather than trying to make excuses on why you find Hmong people the only "threat" to your community.
It's always a bad situation when the authority has no common sense, or common feelings, towards the common man
It's always been about money
@@Shastavalleyoutdoorsman youre beyond stupid if you think the police destroying weed farms is stopping anything like that lmfao
@@Shastavalleyoutdoorsman actual decent Americans lives are ALREADY being destroyed over this. You only care that it might affect you. I live in CA too and i care about more than just myself. So Keep running your mouth. You're a coward and it's easy to tell.
Most of you have no clue how bad the illegal grows are out here. It has drastically transformed the county in ways that are unimaginable.
The Hmong are great people. I respect their cultural values, and I understand they are just trying to get by. But there are private property laws, and they do not realize that you can't just occupy other people's property without consequences. Siskiyou also doesn't allow Marijuana or hemp growth at this time.
It has nothing to do with Asian discrimination.
@@Shastavalleyoutdoorsman gosh you sound like such an old ignorant man
At a protest for water: wears Gucci mask. 2:05
Barbaric says the man that profits of a ridiculous amount of water being sold meanwhile kids are dying of thirst in the dessert.🙄🙄🙄
As an environmental science major it killed me to see the police answering environmental and agricultural questions 😭
If the homosexuals worked a single day in their life, they wouldn't be harassing small growers that was suppose to be protected by compassionate law act of 1996. Imagine if the homosexual community were put to work, we wouldn't have scum bags harassing slave workers and maybe go after the real bosses, the ones sending them to curb their competition. Maybe then they wouldn't deliberately lie to fit an agenda.
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Questions that they hardly couldn’t answer,
@@lukesutton4135 maybe you should get a job to
“Things get cracked because it freezes”... like yes officer, that’s a normal thing lol
If they cared as much about heroin as this worthless weed there would be alot of people still alive
Amen!
But heroin users and makers are serious criminals! Much easier to just prosecute weed farmers and smokers who are much more mellow and can be easily thrown to private prisons.
Or Crystal Meth or Opiod pills or The new M30s that are fentanyl Laced or Gee or the new drugs popping out of the ground it seems in Florida and Arizona and Cali 🤧
I think that’s the point….
72,000 overdose deaths last year. Blood on hands of every cop.
the officer referring to "how do you tax this" is referring to "how do you tax people evading regulation and growing outside the law?" ...get smart.
When vice isn’t there they take a check lol
Beginning a government function with a prayer weirds me out.
Yeah I was confused by that. I thought this was a council meeting or something but I guess it's some church group meeting?
I’m a catholic in Europe and that scene looked very cult-like… it automatically brings a cultural bias into the room
That ain't right man I thought this was the country that heavily emphasized on all religions are equal but it shouldn't be just one religion that's got all the power play in the government section hypocrisy at it finest.
Depends who they're praying to...
The entire government in America started with religious freedom, is it really that weird you godless heathen.
"It's a third world country out there. It's about quality of life"
So he cut off their water 🙄
He meant white peoples quality of life.
@@killero00 just as bad out here for white people. We are all property of gavin newsome.
@@krotchlickmeugh627 he meant the Karen’s
@@Kreepykrypt1984 EXACTLY 😅😅
Yo this is literally South Park the streaming wars
Legalized but commercial cultivation is banned?
People in the 90s in Arizona we're always against the golf courses that were being erected there but because Arizona has less regulation than other states it didn't matter because big developers would come in destroy the rare native Sonoran desert to create these golf courses that have to be watered up to 18 hours a day for the first months of. I know because my dad is a construction worker and he feels so guilty every time he's forced to work on golf courses because they have to run the water trucks on the grass 18 hours a day just to keep it alive in 125° weather.
As of 2022 I know Arizona will start to limit water consumption due to the water loss at Hoover dam. Something to think about or at least look into if your in Arizona. Don’t know how much it will affect people in both Arizona and Nevada but y’all’s water is for real drying up.
Is that bad
So, I'm genuinely curious, why your Dad continues that work if he feels guilty? Is there something more than a financial motive keeping him in the area (like is he a member of one of the tribes, close family, school districts, etc)? Long-term guilt is soul crushing so I'm curious why people stay in those situations
I have a family friend who used to work at a golf course, he couldn't believe how much water they wasted.
I remember him saying how if that golf course was a farm field every plant in it would be drowned 100x over....
One time their sprinkler system actually broke for a few days and the boss did the math and said they saved THOUSANDS of dollars in water just over a few days...
@@Karen-pk3uv okay kArEn 🙄
“If you have nothing to hide why you running” idk bro maybe because you’re coming out with a whole ass rifle and squad to stop people from growing a plant??
There civilian criminal scum
Who wouldn't run from terrorists with guns?
Wow living in LA with the weed culture this is surreal
My Dad met the Hmong at Pleiku in 1966. He had great respect for them. Respect!
4:00 "They are the most dominant growers." So they're getting rid of the competition for the white growers
Yes that’s what is all about. Get rid of the competition. So the white farmers make all the money. So these Asian are the only growers in California. When u start raiding white farmers I will listen to ur BS.
They are not growing the cannabis legally which they certainly could on California.
BTW - in NorCal other other than state approved grows Mexican cannabis grows are dominant not “white boy” grows
@@kevinholeman8123 you realy believe in that ?
Bingo!!
@@kevinholeman8123 Commercial cultivation is still illegal in CA. All commercial grow OPS are illegal basically.
When black farmers moved in, the whites said : "there goes the neighborhood"
When Asian farmers moved in, the whites said : " It's like a third world country out there "
Same same
Yet you still flock to white countries in droves.
@@ashleyseward7133 I am not a communist, but see how fast the CCP is rising. The CCP is making much investments in Africa. Africans will side with the CCP for WWIII. You are going to lose within twenty years. You might have to work for an african.
@@ashleyseward7133 "wE wOn a LoNg tImE aGo" lol sure
@@johnnyngai8067 you're right abiut the growing power of the ccp. The ruling class here loves the authoritarianism they see in china and they want it here. Thats why the borders are wide open, imported peasants who have never known freedom wont fight to perserve it. If the American people dont stand up for themselves things will go very poorly.
@@ashleyseward7133 Do imported peasants work cheap jobs to provide old Americans with a good living ?
Does fighting for freedom means shooting less capable people, indigenous Indians ?
Americans standing up for themselves mean oppressing all newcomers ?
Treat everyone the way they like to be treated is a Christian value ?
4:31 How is that a secret pit? The plastic covering the ground was evident when the sheriff first entered the compound, lol
Let me just get one plant 😭😂
Hit me straight in the heart seeing all the herb get wasted
Sad times
Very sobering sight.
Pissed me off bro
Oh dude let's pay 20$ g for something that costs 100$ a pound. Unlawful enforcement protecting corporate interests until they realize no one is protecting their family, the same innocent that are prisoners of war on the war against evil when other people are getting pursued by unlawful agents. Healthcare is a state right, there are no legal laws against drugs or firearms, as stated, "regulated militia" and no amount of dyslexia or mental retardation will ever change that fact that there are no legal laws against the Supreme Law of the Land. Foreign agents are always trying to lie to the Last of the Americans but everyone must stay true to the real law that these foreign agents that are most likely Chinese, try to rule the foreign divided states of China.
..never fear... there's lots more where that came from...
Dude says "If you don't have nothing to hide, why you running??"
Because!!! You came to a POT FARM with weapons drawn like you were coming up on hostage situation!!
They shoot at cops. They even murder their own out there over personal disputes. It’s completely lawless, I wouldn’t step foot out there, much less without a weapon!
@@chadk197 yes those cops are horrible
@Parris Robinson It has been proven that cannibis isn't as harmful as they thought. The war on drugs is BS, you don't beat addiction by locking them up and "forgeting them". They get a felony and can't get a good job, then the cycle starts.
@@chadk197 I see that all you see is drug dealers and cops shooting it out. You have the mentality of it's us vs them. Once you believe that, you won't listen to the "other side" So there is no trying to show you different. You have to come up on that yourself.
@Parris Robinson Thank you for understanding. There aren't too many people who act like a decent human. If you come at me with respect, I will return it. You act a fool, you get talked to like a fool. I truly believe you have to be the change you want to see. Much love!!
Damn. Anyone else read the title as “ weed over weed and water”?
What is the point of legalizing marijuana if it is banned for commercials cultivation?
Watching the sheriff lie about how he cares about the environment was hilarious
he just mad he didnt get to shoot anyone
How do you know he was lying? Do you know him personally?
@@neilmuir3503 How do you know that?
@@TroyTempest777 mate why is he dressed up likes hes going to take out bin laden when hes just destroying some bastards means of living. its just a waste of time
Foreal
The cop said" it's like a third world country out there and that cant be okay"... then he says" it's not about race". Some racist ass mental gymnastics that guy just did
U caught that too
Narcissism was learned well by this one
Gj correlating 3rd world with race.
big brain logic
He said its because they are illegally cultivating cannabis on commercial scale. Its pretty friggen clear.
Yeah when nobody was even asking whether it was racist it really shows where his mind is at
honk 4 justice.. LOL
was that a pun
or
a statement
I want to do an article about this for my paper how would i get ahold of these people . The water guy especially. And the Asian gentleman. Thank you in advance
Speaking as someone who is a local to the area. The Mong grows are the cleanest, most well put together, most water efficient grows in northern California. The largest issue are the "grow bros" who actually do destroy the land and use massive amounts of water... whatever I think they are going after the wrong people
@Tyreese Swiggsly no - there are plenty of grows that need to be shut down for environmental degradation and illegal water diversion (Humboldt resident)
@Tyreese Swiggsly anecdote. My family are third generation back to land/homesteaders. On one of our parcels we cannot cross the property border without being shot at, they dumped mass amounts of sediment causing one of our creeks to overflow its boundary destroying our road, shed, and causing irreparable environmental harm. These grows need to be eliminated. Those grows are not the mong.
*Hmong
Hmong*
@@jonahmoore5228 Hmong*
They need to protest no water for the almond farmers in the state !!!
Why? They arent the problem we need to wtop sending water to southern California
@@dogguy8603 look at the water usage alone for a pound of almonds alone ! It’s outrageous and we grow 80% of almonds for the planet - it’s a scam
@@dmedina6835 you realize without almond farms local valley wells would go dry (i live in almond growing areas) the reason they say they cost so much water is because of flood irrigation used to replenish ground water, no almond irrigation no well water, lentils use far more water than almonds, and weed takes a lot of water as well, want to save water? Cut off southern California and the Bay Area
Almonds are overrated, a scare for the ignorant. Alfalfa is much worse.
@@vidyagaems4063 dont forget lentils
Corporate big businesses crushing small families is as American as apple pie.
"It's like a third world country out there." "This isn't about race." Sounds like it is to me.
Exactly, if they were WHITE farmers growing weed they wouldn't shut the water off
Racist sheriffs law bending no whites sounds like we ( America) are going back to good old days ahh I miss those days hiding from master in swamps oooweee
This is Amerikkka
yea.. "forget about cannabis, it's just about the quality of life and how people are living out there"
so, his solution is to stop their income, cut off their water supply, and drive around with weapons to destroy their farms on a regular basis
@@MrMrsregor A fucking joke
"Its about quality of life" as they ban and restrict the water, a key part of having quality of life. Sounds like its a bit more like money and power.
It always does
Would not doubt that is could be funded by newsom somewhere.
PG&E French laundry connection happened. 🤨🤔
@@Shastavalleyoutdoorsman
The elite just throw money @ each other like it’s nothing. A couple hundred thousand dollars is chump change to them.
It’s a possibility.🤷🏻
"All I can offer is my opinion. Hopefully that is taken as truth" OMG.
All I'm getting from this Documentary. Is that the "Law Enforcement" is talking about "Obeying Laws" while they BREAK LAWS them selves...
my favourite part was the cop not knowing what plant nutrients were and being concerned with their effect on the environment.
I don't think those plant nutrients pose any real danger to the environment, the arguments that the sheriff made are complete non-sense.
He said his self he doesn’t know what it is lol … but yet let’s interview this guy he’s a real scholar in his field 😂😂😂
Bruhhhhh ... Don't you realise that certain states in US are going through drought ? And they are diverting the needed water not to grow much needed crops but to grow weeds ... They are literally buying water to grow weeds 🤷 ..
he just works here, don't expect him to know anything
@@swagatasarkar8083 But the guy they're buying their water from dumps 6 MILLION gallons a day on alfalfa ... an herb with medicinal properties, not a food crop. So 6M gallons a day on a legal medicinal herb is fine during a drought, but 300k gallons a day on a different medicinal herb is not fine during a drought. Got it. Super logical.
Too much nutrients in groundwater IS bad for the environment. Causes algal blooms and changes riverine ecosystems
Good thing the air doesn’t come in tankers
There is a pretty big drought here I see farms and everywhere around them is dry in lemore
"Biggest slice of the pie" civil forfeiture at its finest...
"If you have nothing to hide, then why are you running?" Uhhh... maybe from your assault rifles?
Watching them destroy those plants with a bobcat made my heart just sink….. :/
Ban expensive mansions too. California got record rain and snowfall in 2022 and 2023 yet as the LA river was so full, it just gets flushed to the sea.
All because the government isn’t getting their “slice of the pie”. I smell bull
@@BigMoonTVAcademy yes you should
That guys 5 greenhouses vs. 500 acres of apple trees……which uses more water? We all know this isn’t about water
How’s that war going???
They can’t stand to see some poor people make money without them getting a cut
So true
A cut?$$$$$ Those are the farmers that still have their greenhouses😒
They do it like The Brady Bunch to meet the limit. Then it's not just 1 individual they brought the whole Village. They should all wear Whitemask
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Facts
It’s not about race. Said everyone when it’s about race.
That's right.
You make it about race most white people live just like you it's not color it's about money rich and poor that's what it's about need to keep out of that sleep mode
@@Poppindaddy79 that's a lie. Plenty of white people making money of weed and you don't see them getting harassed.
@@bandidomex6766 u don't even know what I am talking about so know your roll
I talking about its about rich and poor not color
When it comes to cali they needa be more worried about the meth than the weed. The weed don't got people living on West cap and robbing mfs so they can get high again.
To produce a single almond requires a gallon of water.
9:11 "It's like a third-world country out there"
Yeah, because the police and county are making it that way. By constantly busting hmong pot farmers far disproportionatly to their enforcement of other pot farmers, and all over a plant that's otherwise legal in CA, you make it impossible for those growers to commit capital investment or loans to modernize their operations. They can't fix up homes, save money, reinvest profits or do normal American things that other weed farmers in a legalized state can.
Instead of wasting taxpayer money on cops by enforcing this, you could be making tax receipts by legalizing it like every other county in CA. Or maybe it's not a waste because the sheriff's office has already eliminated fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, murders, gangs, and assaults so they have time for this bs... lol
This deserves to be top comment
It was very telling that he couldn't actually give a good reason of why the water trucks and these farms are being targeted. Like the other farmer said, he's using millions of gallons of water on his alfalfa fields while the pot farmers are getting shut out over a tiny amount. Very fishy
I love how somehow you make police the problem amongst other things
MJ growing was illegal in the county before these growers moved in, and many of them knew that when they purchased the land. There's no evidence that Hmong growers are being targeted more than others; this subdivision is heavily dominated by Hmong illegal pot farms, so they are the ones being visited by the Sheriff. Some are environmental toxic nightmares with unchecked pesticide runoff. If pot growing does become legal in this county, then they will have to comply with a long and expensive environmental permit process, just like everyone else.
Good LUCK getting a legal commercial marijuana growing license anywhere. The percentage of applicants that can't get licences far exceeds the amount that do: this actuality softens your argument due to your attempt to compare legal grow-op revenues and their consequences with how illegal grow-op owners can spend their money. There are illegal grow ops everywhere, if you're getting busted then you aren't paying the cops enough and they probably have a rat. It's a loose argument. Not wrong, just loose.
"its like a third world country out there" oh ya depriving them of water'll sure help with that
Sick game
Worries about water, yet they pour water on it 🤣🤣🤣
That sheriff is use to lying. He know damn well it's about race & money.
“Upholding the law” has always been the excuse law enforcement uses to cover their selective enforcement against poc.
Are you a youtube licensed psychic?
@Jason Bourneee The video points out that the Hmong aren't using nearly as much water as other farmers. Yet they're singled out. As long as you can fault them for something that's exactly what's going to happen in Siskiyou county.
@Jason Bourneee The Hmongs buy their water from a big white farmer.
Yeah, this just sounds like homegrown American racism. It's so interesting to see how the justice system decides to invest resources- who to investigate and who to protect and serve.
i thought racism didn't exist. when Black people prove it A + B everyone including asians screams " why you gotta bring race into this".
Grow up. You liberals have to make everything about race.
@@flower2289 Did you watch the video?
This doesn’t seem like racism, more like a case of NIMBYism (Not In My Back Yard) and a sense of entitlement on the part of both the established residents, as well as the Hmong. The established community members do not want to see the culture of their small town disappear due to immigration. Theres nothing wrong with that. People live in small towns for reasons and that does not necessarily implicate them of being racist.
Small American towns have a certain charm that disappears once large groups of outsiders move in and displace the older residents. Irrespective of the newcomers’ race or culture, people from small towns like to protect their community because they treat each other with the same manner of respect that they would offer an extended family member. People from small towns don’t like to see change. The water situation complicates things because there is only so much to go around. One large farm should not be using a million gallons a day but its also somewhat unreasonable for a large group of Hmong (or any other group) to move into an area and start making demands of tenured residents. Both sides have to meet in the middle and come to a consensus.
Although there probably is some xenophobia in that small town (like every small town) its not realistic to accuse everyone of being xenophobic / racist. People just love their community and don’t want to see it change.
leftist lies. asian people got more privileges than white in america with the hate crime laws. black or white people dont get hate crime laws. so you think white people can just grow mj bc there white lmao.
40 seconds in and the sheriff…the fucking sheriff pre wrote a prayer …this is going to be good , real good
The answer to the drought problems is CA Governor Gavin Newsom... when he was elected in 2019 CA water reservoirs were full and was estimated to supply CA residents with 5 years of water before levels would hit drought levels, yet it took barely 2 years for CA to have a statewide drought under Newsom's administration.
So if there is to be any complaints, claims, and accusations tried against who caused the CA water supply to be so low for 2021 then make a direct case against Gavin Newsom and his appointed members of The California State Water Resources Control Board because they allowed the reservoirs they control to be emptied to the point of drought levels.
Going into people's homes with rifles and tactical gear and taking away their livelihood all for a plant. These people are truly American heroes /s
lol imagine ppl reading this and liking thinking you’re serious
YA michigan has that exact thought tho. They want to regulate it so hardcore that the police can have access to your plants at any given time.
Welcome to the club.
Black people have been saying this for at least half a millenia now.
@@bruhbruhderson9595 i agree with OP
Yeah I love when someone comes into my community and starts causing all this chaos. Siskiyou county used to be a peaceful place. Not anymore.